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Article: Burundi on the brink.(ethnic warfare between Tutsis and Hutus)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 8, 1995
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THREE members of Burundi's Tutsi militia, Sans Echec, sit in a small house in the Ngarara district of Bujumbura, scowling. These angry young men joined the Tutsi-controlled army in clearing Hutus, their tribal rivals, and Zaireans out of the city in the past two weeks. Burundi's capital is now known as "Tutsiville".
Yet they are not happy. Smiling is perhaps a skill they lost when their families were killed in the massacres organised by Hutus after the death of Burundi's first democratically elected president, Melchior Ndadaye, a Hutu, in 1993. "I lost all but one member of my family," says one. "I lost them all," says another. The angriest, Frank, "lost friends I ...